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Wednesday, 08 February 2006

FOUR DIE IN AFGHAN CARTOON RIOT

Published in News Digest

By empty (2/8/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)

Four people have been killed and up to 20 injured in a violent protest in Afghanistan over cartoons satirising the Muslim Prophet Muhammad. Police shot into a crowd of rioters in the town of Qalat as they tried to march on a nearby US military base. It brings to 10 the number of people killed in Afghan protests over the cartoons in recent days.
Four people have been killed and up to 20 injured in a violent protest in Afghanistan over cartoons satirising the Muslim Prophet Muhammad. Police shot into a crowd of rioters in the town of Qalat as they tried to march on a nearby US military base. It brings to 10 the number of people killed in Afghan protests over the cartoons in recent days. The incident happened as a French magazine became the latest publication to carry the controversial caricatures. The magazine, Charlie Hebdo, won the backing of a French court on Tuesday, after several Islamic organisations had complained that publication would amount to an insult to their religion. (BBC)
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